Calendar of Events and Programs

Wild Ones Columbus hosts free monthly programs for our members and the public. Please note that events will be cancelled in the case of a Level 2 snow emergency.

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March 2024

Mar
19

"Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants" with Robin Wall Kimmerer

Hosted by Wild Ones National
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
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Online and in person at Reeve Union, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 748 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh, WI, 54901 Map
Live Stream Available

Public Welcome Limited Access Recording Paid Event Program/Speaker Presentation Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains Assistive Hearing

Registration for this event is now closed, and registrants have been emailed about attending. Please contact [email protected] if you have any issues getting in.

This will be a paid event for both in-person and remote viewing. Virtual registrants will receive a link to watch Dr. Kimmerer's talk live as well as a link to the recording. The recording will only be available for a limited time. 

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Ecological restoration can be understood as an act of reciprocity, in return for the gifts of the earth. This talk explores the ecological and ethical imperatives of healing the damage we have inflicted on our land and waters. We trace the evolution of restoration philosophy and practice and consider how integration of indigenous knowledge can expand our understanding of restoration from the biophysical to the biocultural. Reciprocal restoration includes not only healing the land but our relationship to land. In healing the land, we are healing ourselves.

Wild Ones is excited to cohost this event with the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's Earth Week 2024 and the Wild Ones Fox Valley Chapter. 

April 2024

Apr
13

April Program: Spring Yard Tour

Saturday, April 13th, 2024
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Altenburg Residence, 340 Stonewall Ct, Dublin, OH, 43017 Map

Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Home Garden Tour Free Public Parking

For this month's program, we will be touring Wild Ones Columbus member Barbara Altenburg's yard. Barbara has been a member of Wild Ones since 1997. She has landscaped her yard to be a habitat for birds and to provide native plants for their food source. Visitors will be able to see trillium, blood root, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and many more spring ephemerals! Barbara lives on a small lot in Dublin and has removed the invasive honeysuckle behind her house in an area the size of her city lot, restoring it to native plants as well.

May 2024

May
25

Wild Ones Columbus Annual Native Plant Sale

Saturday, May 25th, 2024
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Overbrook Presbyterian Church Parking Lot, 4131 N High St, Columbus, OH, 43214 Map

Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Seed/Plant Sale Free Public Parking

A wide variety of herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs will be available from Wild Ones Columbus and other local vendors. Be sure to stop by!

June 2024

Jun
8

June Program: Summer Yard Tour

Saturday, June 8th, 2024
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Marsolo Property, Columbus, OH Map

Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Home Garden Tour Free Public Parking

Join us for a tour of the Marsolo's yard! Their yard is a standard quarter acre but includes many native plants and interesting features such as bog areas, ponds, troughs, crevice rock gardens and hardy cacti. There will be maps posted to help visitors identify the native plants in each area.

Host bio: David Marsolo has been a Wild Ones member since 2002. His yard is basically a collector's garden that has evolved over 40 years. There are many natives of the Eastern and Central US. The Marsolo's have also been working to lessen their environmental impact by reducing the area of lawn to mow, composting, growing an organic vegetable garden, and rainwater run-off use. Recently they installed 16 solar panels which meets all their electric needs in the home as well as power an electric vehicle.

July 2024

Jul
13

July Program: Catchfly Commons Garden Tour

Saturday, July 13th, 2024
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Litchfield Property, Delaware, OH, 43015 Map

Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Home Garden Tour Free Public Parking

Join us in July for a tour of Terri and Randy Litchfield's 1.3-acre property in Delaware County. Featured in Ohio Magazine, the Litchfield's yard, which now hosts roughly 275 native species, serves as a native plant demonstration garden for the Delaware County Master Gardeners and for the public. In 2023 they launched a blog and website devoted to their garden: Catchfly Commons.

Parking is next door at 667 Bunty Station Road. Signs and a greeter will guide you to a parking spot.

Host bio: Terri and Randy Litchfield's interest in gardening stems from a more general appreciation of nature. They learned about native plants from attending sustainability conferences and simple living festivals in the 80's and early 90's. In 2001 they moved to Delaware to a home with a sunny backyard, much of which was a blank canvas. They both became Delaware County Master Gardener Volunteers. Terri proposed and then chaired the Native Plant Propagation Project, which in 2021 won the Ohio Outstanding Large Master Gardener Volunteer Project Award. One of Randy's hobbies is macrophotography, and this has been a good way to document the insect visitors to the garden.